liblastfm is a collection of libraries to help you integrate Last.fm services into your rich desktop software. It is officially supported software developed by Last.fm staff.
Michael Coffey http://twitter.com/eartle
Fork it: http://github.com/eartle/liblastfm
liblastfm dynamically links to:
- Qt 4.8 http://qt.nokia.com/
- FFTW 3.2 Compiled with single precision http://www.fftw.org
- Secret Rabbit code (aka libsamplerate) http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC
Additionally, to build you will need Ruby and GNU make (or Microsoft nmake).
sudo port selfupdate
sudo port upgrade installed
sudo port install libsamplerate fftw-3 qt4-mac-devel
Do something like this:
sudo apt-get install qt4-qmake pkg-config libsamplerate-dev libfftw3-dev ruby g++ libqt4-dev
Additionally on Linux the configure process requires lsb_release. This is usually already installed (correct me if I'm wrong).
Please note, we have only tested on Linux, but we think it'll work on all varieties of UNIX. If it doesn't, report the bug to eartle on GitHub.
Install Ruby. Install Visual Studio 2008 or higher. Install Qt. Install the Windows Server 2003 Platform SDK r2:
http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=484269e2-3b89-47e3-8eb7-1f2be6d7123a
Set up your environment variables so all include paths and tools are available.
Build and install FFTW and Secret Rabbit Code.
Open a plain Windows shell (Cygwin will work but we don't recommend it), and see the next section.
qmake && make && sudo make install
liblastfm builds to two dynamic libraries (liblastfm.so and liblastfm_fingerprint.so). liblastfm.so links only to Qt, but the fingerprinting part has additional dependencies. So ideally, you would distribute two packages.
We have copied the API at http://last.fm/api onto C++, so like you find artist.getInfo there you will find an lastfm::Artist::getInfo function in our C++ API. lastfm is a namespace, Artist a class and getInfo a function.
Thus the API is quite easy to learn. We suggest installing and checking the include/lastfm/* directory to find out all capabilities.
The demos directory shows some further basic usage including Audioscrobbling and getting metadata for music via our fingerprinting technology.
You need an API key from http://last.fm/api to use the webservice API.
Your link line needs to include the following:
-llastfm -lQtCore -lQtNetwork -lQtXml
Please set an identifiable UserAgent on your HTTP requests for the actual MP3s, in extreme cases we'll contact you directly and demand you do so :P
You can specify your own QNetworkAccessManager derived class for liblastfm to use with lastfm::setNetworkAccessManager(). Our default is pretty good though, auto-determining proxy settings on Windows and OS X for instance.
The liblastfm_fingerprint library does not decode audio files. We anticipate that Phonon will soon do that work for us. In the meantime, sample *Source files for MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and AAC/MP4 are available in src/fingerprint/contrib. If you want to fingerprint files or get metadata suggestions, you either need to add the *Source files to your project, or implement your own.
- Header guards should be prefixed with LASTFM, eg. LASTFM_WS_REPLY_H
- #includes should be to the system path eg. #include <lastfm/Scrobbler>
- Don't make a header public unless it is absolutely required!
- To make the header public edit the headers.files line in the pro file
- For consistency and to make it more obvious it is a private header, don't prefix the header guard with LASTFM
- #includes should be the full source tree path, eg. #include "../core/UrlBuilder.h"